Veterans for Peace, Santa Fe, had a very successful Bell Ringing Vigil outside our State Capitol Building. Over 60 volunteers rang 1,000 tolls of a small brass gong for 16 and a half hours, beginning at 6:00am and ending at 10:30pm. We posted the names of the participating cities.

In addition to memorializing the untold numbers of innocent Iraqi civilians murdered during the United States' illegal and immoral invasion of Irag, we also displayed our Memorial Banners which show the names and faces of the American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. These banners are 3 feet by six feet and now stretch for over 200 feet. We graced the tree line at the Capitol with this terrible reminder of the many costs of American empire.